i tried putting some blue tape over the sensor which i suppose triggered it because it wouldn't let me advance the roll with the pedal.. what would be my next move bud?
Sensors are switches, either mechanical or electronic. A sensor is either normally open or normally closed when it's not sensing anything. When it senses whatever it senses it goes to its other state, either closed or open, depending.
If you don't want a sensor to sense anything then it must be held in whatever state it's in when it's not sensing anything. Likewise if you want a sensor to always sense something then you must hold it in whatever state it's in when it's sensing something. With mechanical switches it's relatively easy to do this. With electronic sensors you can put a chunk of tape over it to make it always sense, usually. Making it never sense is a taste more difficult often requiring a jumper across the sensor's connection, usually.
There are some situations where defeating a sensor becomes more technical. Sometimes the circuitry behind a sensor is looking for a transition and not a state. If this is the case then, generally, you're screwed. There are other more or less annoying variations.
